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$ scarce for 4-H
Open Letter:
The Huron County 4-H
Leaders' Association has
been very busy this year jug-
gling time, finances and pro-
grams.With the program
being run almost fully by
volunteers. It is a big job.
There just doesn't seem to be
enough time and energy to
get it all together. However
we are fortunate enough to
have many willing and faith-
ful volunteers to give us a
helping hand.
As with many other organi-
zations, the 4-H program has
lost most of its government
assistance. We have been
weaned off and now are in
charge of the day-to-day task
of running the program and
seeing the quality is main-
tained. Registration fees
charged for each member are
new for this year. The fee is
$10, with $5 of that being
kept in Huron County and the
other $5 going to Ontario 4 -
Council for each of our
own expenses. This has been
fairly well received by the
members and my advice to
them is to make the most of
their money by attending as
many provincial and county
events as possible. A lot of
time, effort and cost is put
out to offer these events that
are great learning experience
for all who attend.
The "Friend of 4-H Fund"
was developed 22 years ago
to help subsidize Huron
County 4-H members with
travel costs for exchanges,
county competitions, and
promotional material, as well
as many other county 4-H
activities. As a county we
produce our own newsletter
and mail to every 4-H house-
hold. This is a big expense to
us but a necessity to keep our
members and leaders
informed. There are at pre-
sent just over 500 members
taking projects.
At this time I would ask
that you and your organiza-
tion give some consideration
to helping us out financially.
Our 4-1-I program in Huron
County cannot continue with-
out the support of organiza-
tions like yourselves. With
government cutbacks we arc
struggling to maintain a qual-
ity program in educating our
youth.
With the newsletter being
one of our greatest expendi-
tures, we might suggest that
you give some consideration
to funding the cost of one of
these mailings with recogni-
tion to you, your company, or
your organization. Production
and mailing costs for one
such newsletter are approxi-
mately $600.
The above paragraph is
only a suggestion to those
who might have an advertis-
ing interest in mind. We by
no means expect this kind of
commitment from everyone
we approach. Any contribu-
tion you would like to give
will be gratefully accepted
and appreciated.
First time contributors to
the fund will receive a certifi-
cate and for every year after a
seal will be presented to the
contributor to put on the cer-
tificate. Both the certificate
and the seal will be presented
at our annual 4 -Il Awards
Program in November. A
great event for you to attend
and see the 4 -Hers receive
the recognition for their
year's achievements.
Thank you for taking the
time to look at this and please
give it some consideration.
Please feel free to contact me
if you have any questions or I
would be glad to come and
speak to your group, 523-
9487 .
Sincerely
Thelma Dougherty
President
Huron County 4-H Assoc.
MADD applauds
tough stand
by government
Dear Editor:
MADD Huron/Bruce
applauds Transportation
Minister Al Palladini and his
government for taking a
tough stand against drinking
and driving with their pro-
posed road safety bill for
Ontario. After 15 years of
campaigning for this kind of
legislation, we are very
pleased to see a leap taken in
the right direction. Each day
4 Canadians are killed and
over 300 injured as a result of
alcohol-related crashes.
Drunk drivers killed 544 peo-
ple in Ontario in 1994, two of
whom were our son Patrick
Magee 17, from Wingham
and Barb Rintoul's son
Kevin, 16, from the Lucknow
area. To quote Tony
Caivalho, MADD Canada
Chair, "License suspension
and vehicle confiscation,
rehabilitation of alcoholics
and lifetime suspensions for
repeat offenders are elements
of the solution to more effec-
tively deal. with drunk dri-
vers. It is a serious crime and
our laws must reflect this
reality and provide the neces-
sary deterrent."
MADD Huron/Bruce
Lynne Magee
President
Buried treasure somewhere north of town
I dont't want to start anoth-
er Bre-X rush but I was
reminded recently of what
could be great wealth under
the ground - and not far from
town. More the buried trea-
sure variety than a gold mine
and I know where it is.
But first some history....
For some of the 1940s 1
was, among other things, a
lineman for both Ontario
Hydro and the Public
Utilities Commission.
Although most of the time I
spent with the P.U.C. climb-
ing poles and making sure
everybody had power for
their lights and toasters and
washing machines and what-
ever...and that the street lights
came on at night and Hesky
Flax and Bosharts and Bell's
Foundry, Duncan's Shoe
Factory, the Creamery and
the Farmer's Co -Op had the
power to operate and keep
everybody working.
There was just Jake and I
for most of the war years.
Jake was Ray Holmes, who
lived with his family in the
house adjoining the town
weigh scales. He believed he
was the boss. It was an easy
role for him to fill for all he
wanted to do was stay on the
ground and give orders. But
he was likeable and had a
pleasant way about him.
For some reason in the
Spring of 1944 Jake decided
we should clean the place up
and bring some order to the
large shed where electrical
material and supplies had
been stored since the early
days of electricity and Sir
Adam Beck. There had been
a kind of pack -rat mentality
through the years and little or
nothing was thrown out...it
was simply shoved into the
shed until it was a cluttered
mess right up to the door, not
unlike Fibber McGee's clos-
et.
Guest Column
by Clare Westcott
We discovered tons of out-
dated electrical hardware
including old switchgear,
crossarm braces, motors, gen-
erators and miles of copper
wire. The wire, once we put
it in a pile and set fire to it to
burn off the insulation, was
of great value and was sold to
a scrap dealer in Brussels. A
few old transformers were
also sold for scrap, but not
before the oil was drained
from them and turned over to
town employee Jack
Cummings, who dutifully
spread it on the road from
one end of Market Street to
the other to keep the dust
down. PCBs and all.
TO THE DUMP
We took three loads to
Keller's Dump, made up
mostly of old glass and
porcelain insulators, many
still screwed on the wooden
pegs. They were large and
small and of every shape and
colour. 1 would guess that we
hauled thousands of them out
the north road. Now buried
deep in the ground.
I was reminded of all this a
few weeks ago as I walked
through a shopping mall in
Kingston where an antique
show and sale was being
held. The mall corridors were
crowded with booths selling
everything from sideboards
to glass and china, along with
old licence plates and vintage
hockey and baseball cards
that today go by the name
"collectables" and are sur-
prisingly pricey.
Now, about that buried trea-
sure...as I walked from stall
to stall admiring the Elvis
clock and the Marilyn
Munroe lamp shade, and
especially the autographed
Lou Gehrig baseball card, my
eye caught a small display
that really got my attention.
As I got closer I saw the price
tags. One was $40 and the
others ranged from $30,
down to about $10. It seemed
that the smaller ones were
more expensive than the big
ones. Although there was one
with an odd shape about six
inches long, made of shiny
bright clear green glass with
four ripples from top to bot-
tom.. and it was priced at
$75.
These were simple, ordi-
nary, garden variety insula-
tors from the 1950s and
before that had adorned
hydro poles around town in
the decades following the
turn of the century and Jake
Holmes and 1 buried thou-
sands of them in Keller's
dump.
Somewhere north of town
is a patch of ground that con-
tains, not precious metal but
pieces of glass, baked clay
and porcelain and pound for
pound is probably worth
more than all the gold in Bre-
X.
QUIET IN THE LAND
Old resident remembers way back when
FROM THE PAGES OF
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
JUNE 11,1897
AN OLD RESIDENT - Mr.
Edward Cash, of this town,
who is one of the oldest busi-
ness men in the county, and
who is still hale and hearty
and in harness, can make a
boast which but few can do.
He has lived under four mon-
archs. He remembers dis-
tinctly of the coronation of
Queen Victoria, whose
Diamond Jubilee will be cel-
ebrated in a few days; also
the repeal of the corn laws;
the abolition of slavery in the
British Dominions; the Irish
Disestablishment bill; the
Reform bill; the Indian
mutiny; the Crimean war and
other stirring events which
have long since become his-
torical. There are several oth-
ers in town also, who are
older than he and who are
still hale and hearty. Among
the number are Mr. John
Henderson and Mr. Frank
Scott. We hope to have all
these worthy men long with
us.
* * *
FROM AFAR - Mr. R.B.
Scott, of Harpurhey, has had
the pleasure of a ten days
visit from Mr. Black, of
Peebles, Scotland. Mr. Black
is a son of the late Mr. Wm.
Black, of the firm of Messrs.
William and Robert Black, of
Beyroute, Palestine, with
whom Mr. Scott was f2r 11
years a clerk and manger.
Mr. Black has been visiting
all the principal cities in the
States, both north and south,
and coming from Chicago
here. He was much impressed
with the fine land surround-
ing Seaforth and with the
appearance of prosperity and
contentment of everyone. Mr.
Bleck left on Friday after-
noon for Toronto, going
down the rapids to Montreal,
and sailed on the steamship
Vancouver for Liverpool.
JUNE 2, 1922
QUICK WORK - On
Tuesday morning last Mr.
T.B. Hays left Seaforth on the
morning train, reaching
Toronto shortly after ten.
From there he went to the
Union Stock Yards where he
In the Years Agone
purchased a load of stockers,
and by noon was on the train
again for home. That is quick
work for any man, and most
would think it a big day. To
Mr. Hays, however, who has
always been a man of quick
action, and who is only 82
years young, it was simply an
item in the day's work;
Local Briefs - Seaforth is
the only town in the county
without oiled streets. - Mr.
Jack Pringle, of Milwaukee,
spent a couple of days last
week at the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. J.H.
Broadfoot. - Mr. J.O. Rose,
city treasurer of Guelph, and
a former well known
Seaforthite, spent the week
end at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Beattie. - Mr. and
Mrs. James Stewart, of
Winnipeg, are visiting at the
home of . Mrs. Stewart's
mother, Mrs. S. Wallace,
Silver Creek. - The Seaforth
Highlanders Band, under the
leadership of Mr. W.
Freeman, gave their first con-
cert in th Park on Thursday
evening, June 1st.
JUNE 6, 1947
DUBLIN NEWS - After
spending the past nine
months in Scotland playing
hockey for the Fife Flyers
and Kirkcaldy, in the Scottish
Ice Hockey Association
League, Harry O'Connor,
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.
D.J. O'Connor, Hibbert
Township, returned home on
Saturday. His team won the
Airle Trophy and Harry fin-
ished seventh in the scoring
schedule, winning 64 goals
and 23 assists. He states that
Canadian hockey rules arc
used, though the Scottish
League schedule is entirely
different to that of Canada.
All teams and players took
part in the first strike in hock-
ey history, but when the
Association came across with
more money, they all went
back and played as if nothing
had happened.
•*•
On Wednesday at
Convocation Hall, McMaster
University, Hamilton, the
1947 class of Hamilton
School of Nursing took the
Florence Nightingale Pledge.
The class of '47 - 97 nurses -
is the largest yet to graduate,
and included Marguerite
Wcstcott, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Westcott,
Seaforth.
•**
Following an acute heart
attack late Monday night,
Fred S. Savauge, one of
Seaforth's prominent busi-
nessmen, died early Friday
morning. From the time he
came to Seaforth from
Toronto in 1910, he took a
very active part in the busi-
ness and church life of the
community, and his influence
was felt in every circle in
which he moved. His cheery
smile and ready jokes will be
missed on Main Street where
he was respected and like by
all.
•••
When a front spring col -
`Dave? Dave's not here!'
Congratulations to playwright and editor of The Huron
Expositor, Dave Scott, and his wife Kathleen, on the birth of
their second son, Frederick Thomas William Scott, who
entered this world at 6 lbs.. 14 oz. on May 30.
Dave is on holidays for a bit.
His first play, There's Nothing In the Paper, premieres July
23 at the Blyth Festival. Last I heard it was second in
advance sales.
He has been working his butt off on this thing, re -written it
about 50 -million times.
The newspaper business is full of characters and strange sit-
uations. There is never a dull moment.
We waicr Dave's theatrical debut is a hoot, and a hit.
lapsed, a truck driven by
Angelo Phillips, Seaforth,
went out of control on No. 4
Highway, south of Hensall,
on Friday and somersaulted
twice, spilling its load of fruit
over the highway. Mr.
Phillips received bruises and
a severe shaking up.
A similar accident occurred
two miles west of Seaforth
on the same day, when a
truck owned by Haase Mill,
Winthrop, turned over,
spilling a load of grain over
the road. The accident was
investigated by Provincial
Officer J.W. Cuip.
JUNE 15, 1972
Seaforth council decided
Monday night not to release a
report which had been
received from the Ontario
Police Commission. The
report came as a result of a
request by council to investi-
gate the Seaforth Police
Department.
Decision to seek the inves-
tigation resulted from a
request advanced early in
May by a group of ratepayers
who originally had asked that
a public enquiry be held fol-
lowing the resignation of
Constable Keith Ruston.
Mayor Frank Sills asked the
press to leave after a motion
to go into committee of the
whole had been approved by
council.
In the discussion before the
vote was taken, Councillor
George Hildebrand stated he
thought the press should not
be excluded and that the
report should be published in
its entirety.
It was later decided that the
report would not be made
available to the press in
whole or in part.
Mayor Sills said Tuesday
the report in the main dealt
only with personal matters
and reviewed discussions
which the investigators had
had with council and others
involved. As a result he said
it contained only information
of which council already had
knowledge.
He said the only recom-
mendations had to do with
administrative procedures
and the provision of addition-
al reports.